Summary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PITSummary: "Focusing on the loves, careers, ambitions and relationships of a group of gay men and women" in Pittsburgh, PA--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUESummary: Following the lives of five gay men in Pittsburgh, 'Queer as Folk' is a riveting drama full of sex, drugs, adventure, friendship and love. Although the creators of 'Queer as Folk' wanted to present an honest depiction of gay life, it is by no means a comprehensive depiction. In addition to the usual sexual escapades and relationships of the five friends, the show explores critical gay political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUESummary: Pittsburgh corporate lawyer Nick Fallin's high life has gotten the best of him. Arrested for drug use, he is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. He must now squeeze those hours into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions, and board meetings. Reluctantly, he is now a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pittsburgh corporate lawyer Nick Fallin's high life has gotten the best of him. Arrested for drug use, he is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. He must now squeeze those hours into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions, and board meetings. Reluctantly, he is now a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUASummary: An 18-year-old dreams of being a dancer. By day she's a welder and is having an affair with her boss, by night she dances in a exotic club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FLASummary: A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BROSummary: For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: The beautiful and young Cinderella finds her life of drudgery at the hands of her stepmother and two wicked stepsisters changed forever in one evening, thanks to a fairy godmother and a handsome prince.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment [distributor 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CINSummary: Bert Kalmar always wanted to be a magician, but all it takes is a disastrous opening night to make his dream go poof! So, Kalmar moves on and finds songwriting magic with collaborator Harry Ruby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS THRSummary: Featuring the gorgeous music and lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin, this tells the impassioned story of art, friendship, and love between American GI, Jerry Mulligan, and Lise, a beautiful young dancer in the 'City of Light'.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS AMESummary: Selma, a factory worker in rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The sound of music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A musical comedy film about an aspiring songwriter, four single actresses, and the staging of a new musical play on Broadway. Includes dances choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GOLSummary: A beautiful musical comedy that follows one young man's journey as he experiences the true spirit of Ukraine on his search for a woman to call his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HUTSummary: Ali, is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BURSummary: Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LURSummary: It's a season filled with unique medical mysteries and shocking twists and turns. The team pulls together when a 6-year-old child is kidnapped, a lottery winner's luck takes an unfortunate turn and one of Philadelphia's most despised citizens turns up dead, leaving an entire city of suspects. Meanwhile, Megan must also navigate the complicated new dynamic with her ex-husband and boss, Kate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABC Studios 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Step up to the bar at Paddy's Pub and get into the crazy world of Dee, Charlie, Frank and Mac as they pursue even more outrageous subjects like cannibalism, glory-hole fixations, or Dennis's over-the-top sexual memoirs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A biography of American actress and singer Lillian Russell, from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS LILSummary: Jimmy ventures out to locate a rare film print. The film, once it is shown, has been known to drive its audience into a crazed frenzy before the theatre goes up in flames. Jimmy finds that the film lives up to its reputation and the results are shocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Documents the exploits of a paper supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The employees are led by manager Michael Scott, a deluded boss who cares about the welfare of his employees while trying to put his own spin on company policy. From sexual politics to performance reviews to email espionage, the employees at Dunder-Mifflin are there to get the job done ... or not.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD OFFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Of 2Summary: As World War II ends, thousands of British soldiers get 'demobbed', demobilized and sent back into civilian life. Among them are Captain Ian Deasey and Lance Corporal Dick Dobson. Deasey and Dobson have had a 'good war, ' much of it spent entertaining the troops with their bawdy stage routines. But after serving four years in the North African desert, they find it hard to adjust to peacetime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011